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potatoisabean t1_it3udvm wrote

Reply to comment by Lost-Currency9670 in [OC] US counties required to provide non-English ballots under the Voting Rights Act, by number of languages by USAFacts_Official

If you can't even speak the language (the bare minimum) you shouldn't be able to vote

Healthy immigration should be promoted (neither closed nor open borders)

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the_mellojoe t1_it41md1 wrote

officially, there is no "the language" and every time it came up for a vote, people voted it down. so which language should people speak? Any of the native indigenous languages? German? Spanish? English? Old Norse? Italian? or any of the languages brought from the countries in Africa?

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Longjumping-End-3017 t1_it45jwg wrote

While English, is the most common language spoken in the US, there is no official "main" languages in the US.

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johndburger t1_it520dc wrote

What’s the “main language” in Switzerland? How about China?

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FreshestEve t1_it468fr wrote

Nah they are correct. The USA do not seem to have an official language at the federal level. Some countries do have multiple languages at the federal level and not one "main" language e.g Switzerland.

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